The producers of the Tony Award-winning musical AVENUE Q, transferring from its 6-year run on Broadway to New World Stages (340 West 50 Street) in New York, with previews set to begin October 9, have announced casting for the Off-Broadway production along with the official opening night, now scheduled for October 21, 2009. A Rush Ticket policy for all performances is also announced.

The award-winning York Theatre Company (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director) announces casting for Paradise Tossed and Falling to Earth, the next offerings in its acclaimed Developmental Reading Series.

Rising star of musical theatre, Cassidy Janson is confirmed to join the cast of AVENUE Q this fall. She takes over the roles of Kate Monster and Lucy the Slut from Julie Atherton on October 5 as the show enters its new booking period. Cassidy gained attention when she covered and appeared in the role of Elphaba in the West End hit Wicked. Prior to that she played Susan in the UK premier of Jonathan Larson?s Tick Tick Boom at the Menier Chocolate Factory.

Tony nominee Martha Plimpton and Christy Carlson Romano will join Tony and Emmy winner Elaine Stritch at the Sept. 24 reading of 'White's Lies' at the Snapple Theatre Centre in NYC.

Daniel Reichard(Jersey Boys), Nick Blaemire(Cry Baby, Glory Days), and Rob McClure(Avenue Q) are set to appear in the next performance of 'Craig Stevens Guide to Making it on Broadway' at the Laurie Beechman Theater on Thursday, September, 24th at 9:30pm.

MEMPHIS has nabbed the Shubert Theater for its fall run.

Casting has been announced for the National Tour of AVENUE Q, presented by Work Light Productions. The three-time Tony Award winning musical, including Best Musical, Best Original Score of a Musical and Best Book of a Musical, is about trying to make it in New York with big dreams and a tiny bank account.

Directed and choreographed by Connor Gallagher (Fat Camp), 'The Battery's Down' stars Jake Wilson as a young performer who, along with his friends, navigates the world of showbiz in New York City and Los Angeles. Series regulars include Andrew Keenan-Bolger (Mary Poppins, Spelling Bee), Dani Spieler (Legally Blonde), Nina Sturtz (Vote! The Musical) and Cortney Wolfson (Legally Blonde, Les Miserables).

The much-loved, musical web series 'The Battery's Down' has announced its season finale complete with two final episodes to close out the second, and last, season. Episodes 15 and 16 will premiere on October 15 and December 1, respectively.

BroadwayWorld has the gotten scoop that Rialto favorite Barrett Foa will be on your TV twice next week.

Michael Croiter, musician and owner of the recording production facility Yellow Sound Lab, and Tony Award®-winning Orchestrator Bill Sherman (In the Heights) have partnered to launch YELLOW SOUND LABEL, a brand new record label that will produce an eclectic array of albums from some of today's biggest talents from Broadway and beyond. Yellow Sound Label recently signed a distribution deal with Alternative Distribution Alliance (A.D.A. Distribution), part of Warner Bros. Music, and is set to premiere on September 22 with the release of Tony Award® winner Alan Cumming's new album, I Bought a Blue Car Today.

Tony nominee Martha Plimpton and Christy Carlson Romano will join Tony and Emmy winner Elaine Stritch at the Sept. 24 reading of 'White's Lies' at the Snapple Theatre Centre in NYC.

A DVD of 'The Leading Men IV,' a benefit concert for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS held last May, will be sold at the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Flea Market on Sunday, September 27.

Daniel Reichard(Jersey Boys), Nick Blaemire(Cry Baby, Glory Days), and Rob McClure(Avenue Q) are set to appear in the next performance of 'Craig Stevens Guide to Making it on Broadway' at the Laurie Beechman Theater on Thursday, September, 24th at 9:30pm.

ATLANTIS PRODUCTIONS, the Manila-based theater company that recently staged Broadway musicals THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE and HAIRSPRAY, celebrates its 10th anniversary and the voice of the youth as it opens its own production of Tony, Grammy, and Drama Desk award-winning musical SPRING AWAKENING at the Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium, RCBC Plaza, Makati City on Friday, September 25, 2009.

The vampire rock musical The Cure will sponsor a Broadway blood drive through the New York Blood Bank on Sunday, September 20th from 12noon-5pm at the Theater at HA! (at 163 West 46th Street).

Tony Award-winning Best Musical MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT kicks off the inaugural season for Broadway San Jose. The musical comedy The New York Times declared 'resplendently silly' brings its quest to the South Bay September 15 - 20, 2009 at the San Jose Center for Performing Arts, 255 Almaden Blvd., San Jose

BroadwayWorld favorite Barrett Foa will be starring on the upcoming show 'NCIS: Los Angeles.' The series debuts this Tuesday, September 22nd at 9pm on CBS. 'NCIS' star and rap icon LL Cool J recorded a song and created a special rap video for the crime drama, Barrett himself makes a cameo in the vid around the three minute mark.

The Laurie Beechman Theatre is excited to announce THE BEECHMAN FOLLIES, a thrilling one night only concert featuring some of the outstanding talents who have graced the stage of our midtown venue over the past three years. Among the cast are some of Broadway's brightest lights, as well as cabaret's most dynamic performers. The concert will benefit The Beechman's acclaimed Voices from the Great White Way series, which features one night only concerts from some of our favorite Broadway vocalists.

The New Group's upcoming reading of The Kid, a new musical based on Dan Savage's book The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant (slated as the third show of the company's current 2009-10 season).

Eric Rosen, artistic director of Kansas City Repertory Theatre, opens the Rep's 2009-10 season with the Tony Award-winning musical Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim. Broadway director Moisés Kaufman will direct.

Due to heavy demand for tickets, the New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) and Andy Sandberg (Hair) have announced two additional performances for The Last Smoker in America with Book & Lyrics by Bill Russell (Side Show, Tony Award Nominee), and Music by Peter Melnick (Adrift in Macao, Drama Desk Nominee) on Wednesday afternoon, October 14th at 1:00 p.m. and late night Friday, October 16th at 11:00 p.m.

Due to popular demand, the following shows have added additional performances: Encore: Friday, October 2nd at 5pm Fat Camp: Friday, October 2nd at 4pm

AVENUE Q, Broadway's smash-hit Tony Award-winning Best Musical about real life in New York City, is coming to the Shubert Theater in New Haven for a limited engagement, October 9-11, 2009.

The National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) and Executive Director Kathy Evans announced the directors, music directors and preliminary casts for the eight musicals being presented as 45-minute staged readings for its 21st Annual Festival of New Musicals at New World Stages (340 West 50th St) on Monday, October 19 and Tuesday, October 20, 2009.